Re: Verb order in Montreiano

On Sun, 1 Apr 2001, Barry Garcia wrote:

> CONLANG@LISTSERV.BROWN.EDU writes:
> >But seeing this made me want to ask: In what order do people like to
> >settle on grammatical features (whether or not said features are later
> >revised)?
>
> Well, I hadnt actually set the word order. It was in the back of my mind
> set as SVO: Tu comist a mi casa. So, i had been going along with that. I
> havent had a lot of time to really think about Montreiano with school and
> work (I havent done anything with the grammar since oh....february). So,
> when i read Padraic's archives for Brithenig, i saw the message talking
> about that order, and since I liked it so much in Tagalog, i decided that
> would be the main order. I also think the sentence looks cleaner this way
> (i think learning Tagalog has kind of influenced me to like monosyllabic
> pronouns to go after the polysyllabic nouns ;)).
Okay, that makes sense.  :-)  I'm beginning to see why people tear the
guts out of their conlangs and cheerfully replace them, or otherwise
perform surgery, since I've decided to do it myself...it's just fun.

YHL